Trekking
The last time I remember hiking was labor day last May when a few friends and I decided to see what all the fuss surrounding Dodiongan falls was all about. It was mag-nificent by the way; quite the steal for an easy 20-minute hike.
Day 1 of the IBS Waterfalling Adventure Tour 2.0 took me and a happy bunch of backpacking bloggers from different parts of the Philippines to three different waterfalls in Kalubihon, Dalipuga conveniently named Kalubihon, Dalipuga and Pampam falls.
In between those three waterfalls were a lot of trekking. Up a few hills, down a few hills and over or across the tiniest streams with the occasional carabao dung to keep any hiker appropriately vigilant.
Before slipping into the trees and following the trail, we loaded up on fresh mangoes and a nice hot batch of puto maya. Actually, they did. I just kept my share in my bag - only to devour it when the group settled down for lunch. Something about the hike changed me. haha. The puto maya was surprisingly still pretty warm by the time I had it, though.
Moral of the story: never pass up any form of carbohydrate on hiking trips.
The first stretch of trekking was totally dry. We didn’t come across a waterform or any signs of it until the trail took us straight to our first waterfall which was Pampam.
Mhm. Right, yes, I can’t really judge and classify the type of climb and the levels of difficulty. My trekking prowess so far has only given me enough to grade terrain from an I can climb that level to a no can doodles.
They’re all can’s so far, see all the coolers we’re lugging. Trick I guess is to stop every once in a while to catch your breaths and talk with the people in front and behind in the trail to make the hike fly by.
I discovered I really like hiking. The whole time, I felt like I was in some Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros song.
(continued in next post)
Photos are courtesy of Doi Domasian of thetravellingfeet.com, Jam Jacosalem of traveljams.com and Jeffrey Wong of gwapito.com, all rights reserved.
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